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| Mayawati Quits Parliament Hours |
| Mayawati Quits Parliament Hours After Angry Walkout From Rajya Sabha
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| INDIA
, 18-July-2017
20:46:20 PM |
| Mayawati, Bahujan Samaj Party chief, has resigned from the Rajya Sabha hours after she had angrily walked out of the Upper House of Parliament today declaring she would quit if she was not allowed to speak on what she called frequent attacks on Dalits in Uttar Pradesh.
The 61-year-old met Vice President Hamid Ansari, who is chairman of the Rajya Sabha, this evening to hand over her three-page resignation letter and said she had detailed in it her reasons for quitting. "I simply wanted the Rajya Sabha Chair to pay attention to atrocities against the less fortunate sections of the society, especially Dalits. And as a representative, when I'm not being allowed to speak for them, I have no choice but to resign," said Mayawati, who earlier said she has been asked in Parliament to limit her speech to three minutes.
The dramatic move is seen as an attempt by Mayawati to consolidate her core Dalit support base and re-establish herself as the sole leader of the community after a debilitating defeat in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections earlier this year. Her party could win only 18 seats with the BJP seizing power by winning more than 300 of the state's 403 seats and making major inroads into UP's significant Dalit vote.
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